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Latest News
WTCC @ Sears Point (Infineon)
Well it is still Sears Point to me :/
Anyway, I was thinking of getting a group of us NorCal people together to experiences the joys of touring car racing!
So check out the thread here ( http://evoempire.org...490-wtcc-in-usa ) and post up if you are interested in going.
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Wekfest 2012
Check out all our memebers photos here http://evoempire.org...k-fest-sf-2012/
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9-11 Ten Years on
Never Forget!
I remember that day, I was in Hanau Germany doing a project with my unit. When I first heard the news over AFN, I thought it was some sort of joke. Then as the news poured in. I knew it wasnt a joke and that I was going to have a hot summer.
In 2003 I did.
http://www.theatlant...attacks/100143/
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The new Calendar
With the update to the new forum soft, the good folks at IPB have created a useable calendar for there forum soft.
Three of the major improvements on it now include the ability to comment on entries, to RSVP to an event and to download the calendar as in iCal format.
If someone from the HPDE gang and Cone-dodgers United of NorCal want to help out I can work with you all create and maintain an evens section specific to your needs.
Also for carshows and drag events feel free to PM me to get it listed.
You can see our test event here
Jay
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Stickers, Get your Stickers here!!!
You know you want 'em;
So support the site and pick up a set for your car today!
Stop by the store here and then make sure to post up a picture of them on your car~!
We have as of right now both black
and white
with more sizes and colors coming soon ™
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$40 Lightweight Carbon Hood
Jul 24 2011 06:24 PM | fourced4cyl in News
You can view the original thread by fourced4cyl here
I have been on the hunt for a super cheap carbon hood so I could try this experiment, and finally found exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks to PCYang, I scored this beauty for a whopping 40 bucks. I think it is an old seibon that was supposedly on Wilson's yellow when SE had their little accident a while back.
Needs some clear coat work.
Underside isnt too bad.
Having watched SSE and other high end time attack cars, a common theme I noticed was that the hood was nothing more than a skin of carbon. SSE I think rocks the 2500 dollar dry carbon seibon that is about 7lbs. If I could, id do the same, but I cant, so my hood is worth $40 instead. But...I decided to try making it just a skin like the cool ones.
So here is what I did today.
Grabbed my favorite tools...
Fired up my free air compressor that blew the breaker on the house about 5 times...and got to work.
First step was to cut around the perimeter of the underside structural support.
Then I cut around the vent on the underside.
There were some tricky spots where the subframe was attached to the skin. I cut around these areas to free the subframe and will go back and clean up the remnants later. Most of the left over pieces peeled off once the sub frame was free.
Here is what the inside of your carbon hood looks like!
And here is the subframe that I removed.
So now, the burning question is how much weight have I saved, right? (well I hope thats the burning question as that was the point of this whole thing).
Here is the Seibon dry carbon hood, weighs 8.59lbs
http://www.seiboncar...TEVO8-CWII-DRY/
My hood weighed 17lbs according to my digital fish scale. Didnt have the same scale with me, but used my bathroom scale.
My weight:
Lets call that 126lbs.
My weight while holding the hood (and while looking like a dweeb):
Looks like 137lbs.
So....maths
137
-126
= 11lbs
Stock hood is supposedly 17.6, soo...maths
17.6
-11
= 6.6lbs of savings
Im not done yet, though. I will be removing more material and sanding down the clear on the exterior.
So far I think im on a roll for a cheap, light weight hood.
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We are a Go!
OMG It worked, well hopefully.
I just finised updating EvoEmpire.org to IPB 3.2 forum soft and adding a front page as you can see. Hopefully I didn't dork anything up to bad. You can read about all the new features with the 3.2 Forum soft here on the IPB site or you can just start to play. I am still working on gettting chat going, but that should be no big deal.
Also as you can see we have a tagging system for post. Enjoy...but if I start to see inappropriate tags or the system abused then it will go away. So enjoy your new diggs and hope you like it. I do.
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